Welcome to Elan

Welcome to Elan Schaltelemente GmbH & Co. KG.!

As a specialist for high quality industrial switchgear we would like to introduce our company and our product range to you on this homepage and invite you to co-operate with us.

Smaller than a standardised switch – smooth fitting. The Schmersal Group presents as an Innovation at Interlift 2009 - the latest position switch range with safety function with our Z/T 196 series.  more

Innovations

Modular and robust design  more Safe speed monitoring of drives This system enables the machine builder monitoring the speed of, for instance, spindle or axle drives in a safe manner.  more

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Safety standards

On 2009.12.18, the European Commission has published the list of titles and references of harmonised standards for Machinery under Directive 2006/42/EC in the Official Journal of the European Union C 309/29.  more With additional speed monitoring module. Safety-related functions are increasingly migrated from the hardware to the software level. This migration is, amongst other things, due to the fact that the requirements placed on the safety functions become ever more versatile, flexible and user-friendly.  more With the standards EN ISO 13 849-1:2006 and EN IEC 62 061:2005 coming into force the subject of designing safety-related parts of control systems takes on a new shape, in which a SRP/CS in future is composed of a combination of deterministic(1) and probabilistic(2) approaches. Added to this are a few equally important new requirements under the keyword “Systematic Faults” and “Software”. This paper is intended to provide you with background information. on the subject of the “New SRP/CS standardisation” which will be useful for your everyday work.  more